I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

How could he uphold the law when that law upheld injustice?

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.

Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.